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and 12 years old, collected in one season, 150 species, A 
considerable proportion of these were among the “ Micros.” The 
late Mr, Tuffen West, when illustrating Mr. Blackwall’s work on 
spiders, for the Ray Society, came to stay for a time with me, in 
order to make as many drawings as possible from living examples. 
In one of our collecting rambles, we came across a pateh of moss 
and short heather, about four feet square, from which we bottled 
in the course of a couple of hours 40 species, several of them new 
to science. Of the Kew spiders, the larger number are of 
sprinkling of rarities, and local forms. Two only appear to be 
bicolor) may possibly be an importe 
rdens may take up the running where Mr. Nicholson has now 
been obliged to drop it? I shall always be most glad to receive 
and work out whatever may be met with.—0O. P.-Cambridge, 
October 23rd, 1902. 
DYSDERIDAE, 
Dysdera Cambridgii, horell. A. In outhouse—a local species. 
Only once collected. 
D. erocota, C. L. Koch. B. In orchid-house, also in Cactus- 
ouse. P. Amongst grass roots at foot of wall of Old Palace. 
Harpactes Hombergii, Scop. B. In curator's office. Q. Amongst 
grass in hedge bank facing Old Deer Park. 
Segestria senoculata, L. Q. Under bark of trees, April, 1897. 
Oonops pulcher, Templet. Q. Collected twice, November, 1897, 
November, 1899. 
DRASSIDAE. s 
Drassus lapidosus, Walck. August, 1898, and J une, 1899. 
D. macer, T'hor.-Cambr. An adult male in residence of Keeper 
of Herbarium, June, 1899. 
D. eupreus, Blackw. P. Under bark of old plane, February, 
1898. Also near Herbarium, amongst bushes, 1900. 
D. Blackwallii, Thorell. Almost exclusively a house spider. 
Prosthesima nigrita, Fabr. A. Amongst low bushes, adult 
female, June, 1899. A rather rare British Spider. 
P. Latreillii, C. L. Koch. Only found once, in house No. xviii., 
January, 1900. 
Micaria pulicaria, Sundeval. - Only collected once, July, 1898, 
on ground in herbaceous department. 
